IMPLICIT

adjective Etymology: Latin ~us, past participle of implicare Date: 1599 1. capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed ; implied , involved in the nature or essence of something though not revealed, expressed, or developed ; potential , defined by an expression in which the dependent variable and the one or more independent variables are not separated on opposite sides of an equation, being without doubt or reserve ; unquestioning , ~ly adverb ~ness noun